Quotes from Elizabeth Taylor

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

Success is a great deodorant.

There's no deodorant like success.

I do enjoy life, I really do. Especially if I wake up the next day.

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Acting is fun. It's not my whole life. It's not my entire being. It's secondary to my life. My life is primary. I'm running in the primary, as you know.

I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Marriage is a great institution.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Success is a great deodorant.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

Success is always less awkward. It does not make claims upon pity or tact: congratulations are easier to give than condolences.

Past and future to him were the realities; the present dull, meaningless, only significant if, as now, going back along the sands, he could say to himself: 'Later on, I shall remember.

They met middle-age together-a time when women are necessary to one another-and all the petty but grievous insults of greying hair, crowsfeet, and the loathed encumbrances of unwanted flesh, seemed less sordid when faced and fought (though fought spasmodically and with weak wills) gaily together.